Philip Hollobone
Main Page: Philip Hollobone (Conservative - Kettering)(11 years, 5 months ago)
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Mr Pickles
I beg the hon. Lady’s pardon. The light was not very good.
We are telling local authorities to work together and join services together. If they stay in the kind of dump or great fug that Opposition Members seem to want, in which they do not co-operate with one another, that prediction will come true, but if they co-operate, things will be better.
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
As a member of Conservative-controlled Kettering borough council, I commend to the Secretary of State its triple-zero policy: zero cuts to front-line services, zero cuts to voluntary sector grants and zero increase in the council tax over a five-year period. Is it not true that the best councils do not moan and groan about their financial settlement, but get on with cutting waste and inefficiency?
Mr Pickles
I am so happy with Kettering borough council that I am thinking of taking a weekend break there to enjoy its good services.